Senate Bills - 110th Congress

S. 3272—The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for the National Institutes of Health for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2008

On July 16, 2008, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) introduced for himself and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) S. 3272, a bill to make emergency supplemental appropriations for the National Institutes of Health for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008. This supplemental, mentioned at the July 16 hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education (Senator Tom Harkin [D-IA), Chairman) by its sponsors, would provide $5.2 billion for NIH, $4.0 billion of which would be appropriated to the Office of the Director, NIH, "which shall be transferred to the Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health to be used to support additional scientific research" and $1.2 billion would be for NCI to support scientific research. No part of these funds would be available beyond the current fiscal year.